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Kaci McCleary, Cory Christensen and Tae Kim are excited to experience Iowa State Fair food, which is arguably responsible for a large percentage of Iowa’s dead people.  Enjoy your nacho balls and other crunchy spheres, bacon and brisket explosions, and fried food-that-used-to-be-good-for-you-until-they-fried-it on a stick.  We also talk about The Atlantic’s article about what babies undergrads are about touchy subjects, which just annoys Kaci, who thinks this is a media-manufactured trend.

Also, researchers grow entire monkey arms in the lab .  And Google Life Sciences is working on a bandage-sized disposable device that will replace the familiar but reviled finger stick that diabetics use to monitor blood glucose.

• The Coddling of the American Mind
• Mass. General team develops transplantable bioengineered forelimb in an animal model
• Google to collaborate on ‘next-generation’ glucose monitoring devices
• What are some things doctors wished they did during their medical school years?
• 15 new foods at this year’s state fair
• Wine-Fried Kalettes

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